Organizations have been challenged by the need to process an increasing amount of data,
both structured and unstructured, retrieved from heterogeneous sources. Criminal …

In the context of Natural Language Processing, the Named Entity Recognition (NER) task
focuses on extracting and classifying named entities from free text, such as news, which …

Abstract Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an important task in Natural Language
Processing. It provides key features that help on more elaborated document management …

In this paper we describe REPENTINO, a publicly available gazetteer intended to help the
development of named entity recognition systems for Portuguese. REPENTINO wishes to …

Quotation extraction consists of identifying quotations and their authors. In this work, we
present a Quotation Extraction system for Portuguese that is based on Entropy Guided …

Let us define geographical IR (GIR) as the activity whose purpose is to retrieve information
in a geographically-aware way. In other words, considering the geographical dimension as …

Anthropological, archaeological, and forensic studies situate enforced disappearance as a
strategy associated with the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964–1985), leaving hundreds of …

There has been much work in the Information Extraction field, particularly in the Named
Entity Recognition task. However, for the Portuguese language, the implementations still …

Esfinge is a general domain Portuguese question answering system. It tries to take
advantage of the great amount of information existent in the World Wide Web. Since …

Esfinge is a general domain Portuguese question answering system. It tries to take
advantage of the steadily growing and constantly updated information freely available in the …